Re: Freezing updates for compositing managers

On Monday 29 of June 2009, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Owen Taylor <[email protected]> writes:
> > Main question for me is whether this belongs in the wm-spec and
> > should be called _NET_WM_* ... it's clearly compositing-manager
> > specific not window manager-specific, but there's not really
> > (as far as know) a good alternate location.
>
> There is already some compositing manager specific text in the draft
> spec:
>
>     http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id2552725
>
> That is still a draft though, so maybe it's time for someone to look
> at making a new release.

 I think the prevailing opinion last time this was discussed [*] was that 
compositing stuff should be in a separate spec. No actual action has taken 
place though.

[*] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2008-January/msg00014.html

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